Hi All, sorry about not blogging for last four days! Eh.. After the my itenary, I have become kinda lazy! Ok ok.. I was always lazy.. but this time.. l became an embodiment of it! (satisfied!)Hey Shadow.. here is my post..J

Itwas a good trip. We (me and my father) we planned to cover most of the temples near the Mailaduthurai, it’s a place in Southern Tamilnadu near to Kumbakonam. We were particular to cover only Dhivya desams, (Dhivya desams- these are the Temples in which Alwars have sung about thedeties and is a considered sacred among other temples!) So we travelled by Bus and reached Mailaduthurai on Thursday Morning (02 Oct 2003), we got out of the bus and we were welcomed by our driver there, its really good to see some person receive your even in a place where you don’t have any acquaintance. He took us to a decent Hotel, where we took some rest and started off our spiritual journey. Wow! man, you wont believe, we almost covered 12 temples in the day, all were Divya Desams and all were very near to each other, in a 20km radius. It was pretty a strenuous journey, traveling all day long continuously. Then we came back to the hotel. I never closed my eyes to sleep, I didn’t know when I started sleeping, when I opened my eyes itwas 5.00 AM! We were supposed to get up at that time, as our driver would come to the hotel by 6.00AM to take us to some distant temples. I was feeling pretty lazy to get up, so I woke my father up and asked him to alert me once he is ready. So I actually got ready by 6.15AM only, huh, but our driver haven’t yet come to the hotel, he too would have felt very tired and hence the delay. He actually came at 6.30AM , by which time we were in the reception. We went to 3 temples which were located pretty far off from our place. We actually decided to goto “Uppiliappan” temple in Kumbakonam, which is one of my favorite deities. So we vacated the hotel by around 1.00 in the noon and went to Kumbakonam and offered our prayers over there. We then disposed the car and took a bus again to reach Trichy. We stayed in one hotel near to the bustand, actually we had one ritual to be performed in Srirangam on Saturday. When we reached tiruchi, it was almost around 3.00pm, we took rest for 1hour and took a bus and went to Srirangam to visit the famous Ranganathar temple. We had a good dharshan. It was already very tiring. I did a mistake when I was in Mailaduthurai, on Friday, I took water from the one of the hotels! I could feel it having effect in my throat, I don’t know why I am sensitive to water! Even if I take once, I face the problem! My throat goes irk!!!!

Then we finished the ritual on Saturday and retuned back to Chennai the same day. We reached Chennai at 10.30pm. Good to have a mobile and the number of Chennai call taxi. These guys (Chennai call taxi) were really cool. I just fixed a taxi 15mins before I arrived in Kathipara junction in Guindy, the Taxi came in less than 5mins to that place. I could realize the power of the technology, you have phone , you can book a taxi while you are still on the bus, reaching your destination, and you have a taxi ready to serve you when you arrive your destination! Cool one, Chennai has improved a lot. The Taxi driver seemed to be a real decent guy,he was conversing fluently in English, that too pretty decent English. Was surprised to see a customer oriented taxi drivers.

Then we reached home by 11.00pm and went to bed.. when I woke up next morning.. a shock awaited me…. I never expected it…

It was Sunday and the time was around 5.30pm, I was still lazy, refusing to get up (yeah.. was enjoying sleeping! Usually called my second round!)..Sunday.... its all ought to be enjoyed.. after those tiring week of work, man you must have Sundays to sleep and be lazy.. don’t ask me how active was me duringweeksdays.. thatzcompletely a different story, which I don’t want to disclose now (hehe).

I have booked two seats(On Saturday)for this play held in Sivagami Petachi Auditorium,Alwarpet and the I have promised my sister that I am taking her with me for the play J. But my laziness was raising its horns to cancel the plan.. cause.. I am lazy to get up and goto the show!

Thanks to my sister, she pushed me to attend the play.. for otherwise, I would have missed that splendid display of transcendent humour !

I just loved the way the character “Evan” attributed himself to such a travesty! Wow man.. you were really cool.

Those preposterously boisterous dialects that were performed in the stage was just awesome!Could it be formed any better??

The performance ofMr.Mark and Mr.Sudge (I am not sure abt their names) the other two main character’s performance were made out of their utter diligence. This could be asserted from the very fact of their professional display that they scorned out in the stage.

Trapping the audience with a gasp, each scene of the play has a class in itself.Evan a self-mocking insane (Can I call him insane!), the spendthrift Sudge(Not really) and the piquing Mark(was all times!) were clearly chistled characters that were exhibited in the play.

The story runs around the feelings attributed by friendship but was centered by an art (which is painted on a white background, with a white foreground! – was that a painting or a clear screen J )!

Ifevam is gonna present another play next time, they can count me already in!.

Yeah.. I am sure they are gonna get more such repeat customers.

I Hope they come up with much more hilarious stuffs as good as the play “the ART”.

My wishes to evam team to succeed! Guys you just did a gr8 performance..! And each of those applause that you received are all well deserved J.

I also liked their service, the polite booking of tickets through phone ..and the ticket distribution till the seating arragements all were professionally done.

SMK – A leader who travels by Bus! A former MLA from Tamil Nadu! A gandhian by principle!

Yes, it was around 5.30 AM today 14th Sept 2003, and my phone was ringing. Awakened by an untimely call, we woke up to hear the demise of Mr. S M Krishanan, a family friend of ours. Our Acquaintance dates back to a decade, time provided this great opportunity to meet him, when he was helping lots of social organizations and common ppl.

A person, we would be missing for the rest of our life. A man of a character with unquestionable honesty and straight forwardness, a Gandhian by principle, and a human who lead, a most modest life in Chennai. You could never imagine an MLA to be so modest and so straight forward and still be in politics. Yes you heard it right, he was elected as a Member of Legistlative Assembly from the Tambaram constituency. But when you speak to him or when you see him, he would look so simple that you would never admit that he was an MLA!

I have never come across such modest political leaders who don’t even own a car and travel by bus. (He is currently in charge for the agricultural sector of Tamil Nadu Congress). Call him any time, he is there to help his fellow human beings and make their life peaceful. He has 72 years of experience in this materialistic world, where more than 50% of his life was devoted to social service. A freedom fighter who has actively participated from the Gandhian times.

Lots of things can be said about this great person who lived the Gandhian principles in its truest forms.

Sir, you have left us with those moments that you have spent with us, I could still hear your voice and the pats that you gave me.

You may not be living with us anymore, but those moments that you have spent with us will be guarded heavily in our hearts for the rest of our life.

Thank you God for providing us the opportunity to live along with such great people.

Hey.. you know one thing, Amit has got an offer from Miscrosoft.. it’s theparadise for the software professionals! Once you get into it.. you are in heaven.. there you have great facilities .. a rack of chocolates, dry fruits, in each person’s cabin.. a flexi time, can choose to work from home. And a gr8 sal package! Cant even compare with any other company! See what we are having.. a dirty cabin, no GYM, Swimming pool.. nothing ya.. a very somber place with no fun..!

I used to compare what I am doing(with some of my gr8 friends who were doing gr8 things).. when some of my friends are flying high.. but then after some deep thinking and analysis (actually after I finished the “seven habits of highly effective ppl – by Stephen R Covey”), I realized my goal is something which “I need to set and achieve” and not by looking at other gr8 ppl and follow their foot steps.

One thing I feel currently, is getting satisfied with what one has is a great boon to live peacefully, but if you are already content with what you have, there is no growth for improvement and you become stagnant..but to strike the balance between the two and to find the right thing for oneslef.. is a trickin itself..!

So If we start to look not only the disadvantages of the current position in life, but also the advantages and other grrener things that are associated with it. With this vision we would at least be able to choose the right thing for us and decide whatz good to us ! and proceed in that direction!

Is this how one has to lead his life.. I don’t know yet.. but I feel it’s a secure way to lead one’s life towards some target!